Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Book, “The Geography, History and Statistics of America and The West Indies; Exhibiting a Correct Account of the Discovery, Settlement and Progress of the Various Kingdoms, States, and Provinces of the Western Hemisphere, to the Year 1822,” by H.C. Carey and J. Lea, 447pp. near fine. Illustrated throughout with 8 large folding maps rendered in color, 3 folding tables also in color, 5 folding engravings and 1 folding table. Contents are very clean. Tears in one map professionally secured all other maps and charts in tact, bright and clean. Small stains on back of title page. Beautifully bound in modern polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Published a year after the first edition (1822) of the larger Carey and Lea atlas. This edition is quite rare and includes The United States, General Map of North America, Pantography of American History, British Possessions in America, View of Quebec, View of Havannah, Chart of the Constitutions of the United States, View of Philadelphia, Mexico (Spanish Possessions), West Indies, Cuba (with St. Domingo, Jamaica and Bahama Islands), South America, Colombia, Brazil, View of Rio Janeiro, United Provinces (and Chili), View of Monte Video (and Plan of the Harbor). An excellent copy.
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